Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick
Grades K-5 · 139 Menahan Street · Brooklyn
Shannon Beatty, Principal · 347-817-2017
About
Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick is a K-5 elementary school in Brooklyn known for its exceptionally strong academic performance. Students consistently achieve proficiency rates in English Language Arts (95%) and Mathematics (97%) that are well above citywide medians, placing the school among the top elementary schools in New York. The school serves a diverse student body, including a high percentage of English Language Learners (52%) and economically disadvantaged students (83%), and is recognized for effectively supporting these subgroups. While parents frequently commend the school for fostering significant academic growth and providing a challenging environment, some describe the atmosphere as intense and demanding. The school maintains a zero-tolerance approach to aggressive conduct, contributing to a 0.0% suspension rate. Despite a very low official parent survey response rate, individual parent testimonials often express strong satisfaction with their children's progress.
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
95%
Math proficiency
97%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
Community & climate
Demographics, attendance, school survey results, and DOE quality ratings.
Quality signals
Overall positive % is averaged across every Pos/Neg survey question per respondent group (school year 2023-2024). Survey topics are the DOE’s framework measures (each the average favorable response across its questions; expand a topic to see them and the citywide average); the dimension scores themselves are no longer in the public data file.[3]
Operational health
Attendance
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Financials
[8]What this school has to spend, and what it spends it on. Spending is not a measure of quality. Schools serving more students with higher needs receive more money.
Charter schools manage their own budgets rather than receiving a school allocation from the DOE, so the staffing and supplies breakdown the DOE publishes for district schools is not published for this school.
Spending
Total spend
$9.1MStudents: 558
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.